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Entries by Matthew Nagowski

MetaEzra's Master Plan | July 23, 2008

Recently on MetaEzra | July 23, 2008

David Harris: A Continued Conversation | July 17, 2008

A Conversation With David Harris | July 16, 2008

Ezra's Billionaires: Reconsidered | July 14, 2008

Thoughts on Kent Kleinman | July 11, 2008

The Cornell Big Black? | July 11, 2008

Lincoln on MetaEzra (and MetaEzra on Lincoln!) | June 27, 2008

An Integrated Lehman, An Integrated Cornell | June 22, 2008

Surprise! Harris Named Interim Provost | June 18, 2008

Further Info on Lowe's Death | June 14, 2008

Common Sense Rules For Swimming in Fall Creek | June 13, 2008

State Appropriations To Wane | June 05, 2008

Ezra's Billionaires | June 03, 2008

What Goes Around, Comes Around For Biddy | June 02, 2008

Cornell Alumnus Takes (and Writes) to the Mountains | June 01, 2008

Uncle Ezra Had A Farm... | June 01, 2008

Chancellor Martin! | May 28, 2008

A Consumate (Future) Cornellian | May 27, 2008

Congratulations to the Class of 2008! | May 25, 2008

More Speculation on Biddy | May 25, 2008

Sparsing the Strategic Plan | May 23, 2008

Olin's New Facade | May 21, 2008

Cornell Faculty Affirm: A Cornell Degree Must Be Earned | May 15, 2008

More 2008 Waitlist News | May 15, 2008

Putting The Odds on a Chancellorship | May 14, 2008

Waitlist Woes | May 13, 2008

Coming Soon: A Free Cornell Magazine? | May 12, 2008

The View From The Crescent | May 11, 2008

Fictionalized Cornell | May 08, 2008

Goodbye Biddy? | May 07, 2008

The Enduring Value of a Cornell Degree | May 05, 2008

Faithful No More? | May 01, 2008

The Swan Song of Rob Fishman | April 30, 2008

College Tuition and the Credit Crisis | April 29, 2008

Cornell's Financial Aid Woes | April 26, 2008

Weill Cornell: The Man Behind the School | April 24, 2008

Variations of Minesweeper at Cornell | April 23, 2008

Congratulations to Mike Walsh | April 23, 2008

How To Pick Your College | April 19, 2008

A Follow Up With Paau | April 19, 2008

More Info On Class of 2012 Admissions | April 11, 2008

Where's My Class Notes? | April 10, 2008

The Sun Can't Do Math Needs Better Reporting | April 03, 2008

Cornell To Drop Out of Ivy League!!! | April 01, 2008

Uncle Ezra On Jepoardy! | March 31, 2008

Going Dancin': Ivy League History Made | March 16, 2008

Burn The Dragon! | March 16, 2008

Cornell's Newest Trustee? | March 10, 2008

Is Cornell The Most Generous Ivy? | February 23, 2008

Whither the Ivy League? | February 22, 2008

Brains, Brawn, and Financial Aid | February 19, 2008

Big Red Basketball | February 16, 2008

A Two Year Anniversary - - Shedding the Ivy | January 31, 2008

No-Loan Financial Aid Policy Announced | January 31, 2008

Alumnus Considered for Czech Presidency | January 29, 2008

Applications Rise by 7.5 Percent | January 16, 2008

It's ILR Week In The News! | January 10, 2008

Cornell's ED Numbers Remain Steady | January 06, 2008

Another Record Breaking Admissions Year | January 04, 2008

Cornell Needs A Winter Carnival | January 01, 2008

An Ice Bowl at Schoelkopf? | January 01, 2008

An Open Letter To New Cornellians | December 23, 2007

Rest of the World to Harvard: We Give Up | December 10, 2007

Connecting Ithaca on a Higher Order | December 09, 2007

CIT to Alums: 'We Made A Mistake' | November 30, 2007

CIT to Alums: Die, Drop Dead, Go Home! | November 28, 2007

Is Cornell's Motto Really That 'Awful'? | November 27, 2007

The Continued Balkanization of College Campuses? | November 20, 2007

Kudos to CUWiki! | November 14, 2007

An Omen of Things to Come? | November 07, 2007

Anything Except Taxes? | November 06, 2007

How Pampered Should Collegetown Be? | November 06, 2007

Pity the indie-rock girlfriend | October 25, 2007

Whiny Indie Rock | October 24, 2007

Homecoming: Where to Find MetaEzra Today | October 13, 2007

Note to Sun: Financial Aid is Growing, Not Shrinking | October 10, 2007

Cornell's Endowment Return: 24.2 Percent | September 28, 2007

Behold the Cantilever! | September 28, 2007

Big Brother Ezra | September 14, 2007

A Cantilevered Milstein? | September 13, 2007

Getting History Right | September 07, 2007

Recent Cornell Grad Dies, Lives | September 01, 2007

A Social Sciences Subtext to the Deputy Provost Announcement? | August 30, 2007

More News on The AAP Front | August 16, 2007

The Turth Behind Mostafavi's Departure? | August 16, 2007

The Idiocy of Cornell Applicants Continues | August 14, 2007

Mann Library Soon To Be Google-Able | August 08, 2007

More on the Milstein Mess | July 26, 2007

Milstein Hall: A Programmatic Necessity? | July 24, 2007

New Cornell Blog Runs Circles Around MetaEzra | July 19, 2007

More Delays For Milstein Hall | July 12, 2007

Cornell CIO Starting Salary: $400k/year | July 10, 2007

Milstein Hall: Continuously Over Budget? | June 28, 2007

Coming Soon To Ithaca: A Bike Escalator? | June 26, 2007

2007-2008 Cornell Budget: More Money For Financial Aid | June 19, 2007

Why Legacies Are Given Preference | June 15, 2007

Weill Cornell to Get $400 Million, Ithaca $50 Million | June 13, 2007

Shock! Common App Increases Apps, Lowers Yield | June 06, 2007

Making Sense of the Lacrosse Season | June 05, 2007

Cornell Capital Campaign: 1.3 Trillion!?! | June 05, 2007

Hillary's Cornell-Gate? | June 04, 2007

Rawlings to Chair Spitzer's Commission on Higher Ed | May 30, 2007

MetaEzra at Lax Semis | May 30, 2007

The Difference Between Red and Blue | May 24, 2007

The Cornell Battle Cry | May 23, 2007

Jeff Lehman on Rankings | May 21, 2007

CU In Baltimore! | May 19, 2007

Waitlist Use Up for Class of 2011 | May 18, 2007

Don't Trust the Wall Street Journal | May 17, 2007

How Great are Cornell Fans? | May 16, 2007

Dead Heads on the Hill | May 08, 2007

Why Biddy Can't Show Us The Money | May 03, 2007

A Note on Commenting Policy | April 26, 2007

Biddy Martin: More Loans for Cornell Students | April 25, 2007

Cornell's Best and Brightest: Mitch and Matt | April 25, 2007

How Stingy is Cornell's Financial Aid? | April 22, 2007

More Admin Stats for Class of 2011 | April 20, 2007

Cornell's Game of the Year? | April 19, 2007

Cornell Counselor on Virginia Tech Shooting | April 19, 2007

Cornell's Involuntary Leave Policy | April 19, 2007

Some housecleaning | April 17, 2007

Working Class Sport for the Working Class Ivy | April 13, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut '44 in the Berry Patch | April 12, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut '44 (1922 - 2007) | April 12, 2007

Entering class size still targeted at 3,050 | April 09, 2007

Acceptance Rates Tell Us Nothing | April 09, 2007

CNN on Self-Segregation at Cornell | April 06, 2007

In Praise of The Ithacan and Kitsch | April 05, 2007

Class of 2011 Acceptance Rate: 20.5 Percent | April 04, 2007

Cornell To Implement Random Lottery for Admissions | April 01, 2007

Blogging From South Hill | March 27, 2007

Hum Ec Dean Tapped as Provost of Temple | March 23, 2007

Rabkin's Fallout | March 21, 2007

Biddy Martin on Cornell's Budget | March 19, 2007

Cornell Statement on Alex Atkind | March 17, 2007

Shock! A Free Cornell Event? | March 16, 2007

Cornell Student Tortures Dog | March 16, 2007

Men's Lacrosse Ranked #1 in the Country | March 13, 2007

Cornell Increases Entering Class Size | March 11, 2007

Business Week: AEM is #10 in Nation | March 09, 2007

Surprise Resignation of SUNY Chancellor | March 07, 2007

Whither the Program Houses? | March 06, 2007

The Location of Gates Hall | March 04, 2007

Skorton's Transnational University | March 02, 2007

Where's the Latin Jazz? | March 01, 2007

Back in Our Day | February 14, 2007

Questions for Dr. Alan Paau | February 07, 2007

Do Big Red Arches Work? | February 05, 2007

Do Ivy League Champions Deserve a New Pool? | February 02, 2007

Eight Percent Increase in Applications in 2007 | January 29, 2007

Conflicting Endowment Returns? | January 29, 2007

Matt Wong '06 Wins MetaEzra Holiday Contest | January 11, 2007

Brian O'Reilly '05, 1983-2006 | December 21, 2006

MetaEzra Holiday Contest! | December 15, 2006

Contract College Tuition and Popularity | December 14, 2006

Regularly Scheduled Programming | December 12, 2006

Post-Season Ivy League Football | November 23, 2006

Should Cornell Quit the Ivy League? | November 17, 2006

Spitzer and Cornellians | November 14, 2006

Hunter and Eliot | November 09, 2006

Hockey Players, Not Farmers | November 09, 2006

Fish Will Be Thrown | November 09, 2006

The Costs of Financial Aid | November 03, 2006

MSU vs. Cornell | November 01, 2006

How ‘Far Above’ is the Capital Campaign? | October 26, 2006

Beef Tenderloin and More Loans For Poor Students | October 26, 2006

The Noisy Phase | October 26, 2006

In Defense of Economists | October 25, 2006

Rankings That Matter | October 20, 2006

The Cornell Blogosphere | October 19, 2006

Far Above: The Campaign for Cornell | October 19, 2006

Whither Cornell's Faculty? | October 18, 2006

Where's Our Free Alumni Magazine? | October 17, 2006

University Goals: Cornell 2015 | October 10, 2006

The Final Word on Rankings | October 05, 2006

Rob Fishman in the Cornell Daily Sun | October 04, 2006

Does Lynah East Need a Ticket Line? | October 04, 2006

Undergrads Need Not Apply | October 03, 2006

Lehman: Show Us The Love! | October 03, 2006

What if the Contract Colleges Dropped ED? | September 27, 2006

Cornell's Real Image Problem | September 25, 2006

Four Billion Dollars | September 21, 2006

Castles Built On Ravines | September 20, 2006

Provost Martin and President Skorton Speak | September 20, 2006

The Costs of Economic Diversity | September 19, 2006

Who's Next? | September 18, 2006

Buying Your Way Into College | September 18, 2006

Why Cornell Will Keep Its ED Program | September 17, 2006

Are Universities a Luxury Good? | September 16, 2006

Annals of Data (and Stupidity) | September 14, 2006

Fanmail! | September 13, 2006

Spinning Harvard's Early Decision Decision | September 13, 2006

Three Cheers for Derek Bok | September 12, 2006

The New Ivy League | September 11, 2006

The Blogging of the Ivy League | September 11, 2006

The Bourgeoisie and College Admissions | September 11, 2006

Skorton Crashes Cornell.edu | September 07, 2006

Skorton and the State of New York | September 05, 2006

A Better Measure of College Quality? | September 01, 2006

Rankings Redux | August 30, 2006

A Princess Only at Cornell | August 28, 2006

Cornell Daily Sun Website Redesign | August 24, 2006

Skorton Issues Open Invitation To Dissent | August 23, 2006

Rankings: So What’s the Big Deal? | August 21, 2006

Our Dear Uncle Ezra Gets Older | August 15, 2006

Republican Higher Ed Reform? | August 14, 2006

Showing Alumni The Love | August 10, 2006

New Washington Monthly College Rankings | August 07, 2006

Cornell's New Chief Investment Officer | August 02, 2006

Diversity and the Nature of Cornell | August 01, 2006

MetaEzra is Six Months Old | July 21, 2006

Harvard to Expand Engineering Program | July 19, 2006

Looking Eastward | July 15, 2006

But Can He Walk the Walk? | July 12, 2006

Is Ann Coulter ’84 A Plagiarist? | July 07, 2006

Has Anybody Heard Of Communiqué? | July 07, 2006

Cornell and the Student-Aid Arms Race | July 06, 2006

Cornell's (Relatively) Open Doors | June 19, 2006

Cornell's Role in Upstate New York | June 13, 2006

Alumni Directories in the 21st Century | June 10, 2006

Explaining the Achievement Gap | June 10, 2006

The Need For Independent Alumni Media | June 05, 2006

Should Cornell Be Feeding Feral Cats? | May 31, 2006

Cutting the Grass | May 30, 2006

New VP For Alumni Affairs Announced | May 23, 2006

Unmasking the Big Red Tape | May 23, 2006

Marriage, Dear Uncle Ezra Style | May 21, 2006

Diversity Costs Money | May 17, 2006

Ian Alberta 1983 - 2006 | May 16, 2006

The State of Cornell's Off-Campus Student Housing | May 15, 2006

Mark Zuckerberg in the New Yorker | May 11, 2006

Is Self-Segregation Inevitable? | May 05, 2006

And People Complain About Oil Prices | April 30, 2006

Now Click Your Heels Three Times... | April 27, 2006

Hey That's Us! | April 25, 2006

Wrapping Ourselves in Numbers? | April 25, 2006

But Where's The Merchandise! | April 23, 2006

East Hill Insecurities? | April 23, 2006

Section O Sucks! | April 18, 2006

Alumni-Elected Trustees Announced | April 14, 2006

What Liberal Bias? | April 12, 2006

Durham's Dystopia | April 11, 2006

A Reason To Pay Your Class Dues | April 07, 2006

Harvard Ups the Ante in the Student Aid Game | April 04, 2006

Big Red All The Way To The Frozen Four? | March 24, 2006

Cornell Freshman Found Dead at UVA | March 21, 2006

Economic Diversity Across Cornell's Colleges | March 07, 2006

eCornell and Access to Higher Education | March 03, 2006

But Would I Have Gotten In? | February 23, 2006

The Cost of School Spirit | February 23, 2006

An Impediment to a Transnational University | February 09, 2006

Fehrs '77 Resigns as Chief Investment Officer | February 03, 2006

But Where Will The Building Go? | January 26, 2006

Tuition Rising (Yet Again) | January 23, 2006

Scarves Redux | January 23, 2006

Cornell's 12th President | January 21, 2006

Ithaca Is Cold, Afterall | January 19, 2006



Other Recent Posts


-- Further Info on Lowe's Death (Nagowski)

-- Common Sense Rules For Swimming in Fall Creek (Nagowski)

-- State Appropriations To Wane (Nagowski)

-- Ezra's Billionaires (Nagowski)

-- What Goes Around, Comes Around For Biddy (Nagowski)

-- Cornell Alumnus Takes (and Writes) to the Mountains (Nagowski)

-- Uncle Ezra Had A Farm... (Nagowski)

-- Conservatives at Cornell and Beyond (AGuess)

-- After Microsoft Pullout, What's Next for Cornell? (AGuess)

-- Chancellor Martin! (Nagowski)

-- A Consumate (Future) Cornellian (Nagowski)

-- Congratulations to the Class of 2008! (Nagowski)

-- More Speculation on Biddy (Nagowski)

-- Sparsing the Strategic Plan (Nagowski)

-- What Olin Should Look Like: A Counter-Post (AGuess)

-- Olin's New Facade (Nagowski)

-- Cornell Faculty Affirm: A Cornell Degree Must Be Earned (Nagowski)

-- More 2008 Waitlist News (Nagowski)

-- Putting The Odds on a Chancellorship (Nagowski)

-- Waitlist Woes (Nagowski)